I am totally lost - please help

[INArtCtr]

Seeking an ARCServe expert in the Indianapolis area to help a not-for-profit set up their Brightstore v9 so it WORKS! What the !@#$%^ is a media pool and why is it messing up my backups? How do I register without an internet connection to the server?

Feeling my head quickly approaching the proverbial brick wall........

 

[speshalyst]

HI,

Media pools is an organized way to manage youe tape media without much administration...

you can use media pools when you run Rotation jobs...

If you do not with to use media pools... do a run-once job without any rotation...

please read the manual for further details on rotation jobs and media pools...

Arcserve 9 does not need registration...

when you installed the product you would have put in a licence code.. this is more than enough...


cheers
speshalyst So it Shall be Written!
So it Shall be Done!!

 

[INArtCtr]

Manual? Someone has a manual? How can I get me one of those????

I think I am grasping the concept of what a media pool is supposed to be, but I still can't get them to work -- I set up a media pool using minimum number in save set as 0, retention days as 6 and serial numbers as the default. I did that one Monday. Monday's backup ran. Tuesday's did not, and I get a message telling me to mount a blank media. Tell me it didn't reset to append.

So I can just say "don't remind me" when the registration reminder pops up?

Sorry to be so clueless, but I am in way over my self-taught head here!

 

[Cyklops]

The manuals are all on the BrightStor CD-ROM in *.pdf format
The way ARCserve deals with rotation schemes is that it takes care of your media administration by assiging pools and rules for when to overwrite media. You build up your rotation sets by putting 'blank media' ( ie. new tapes ) in the machine so ARCserve can take care of the administration.
Every blank media you put in will become part of the rotation scheme sets and is protected by the rotation rules.
If you only have used tapes 'renew' them by using the 'quick erase plus' method or assigning them to media pools using the media pool manager.

hope I'm clear

regards